Max

From a country that starts with the letter "I." Immigrated to the US at a young age and was raised in Ohio.
Studied Computer Engineering and Economics at Rose-Hulman in Indiana and was then recruited by Microsoft to be a Technology Specialist in Boston.
Now out at MS-HQ in Redmond, WA... just for you.

What started out as an initiative to help middle school students learn about programming concepts has ballooned out into a great tool for all beginner programmers. It’s the Visual Studio Learning pack… and it’s ready for you to
download.

The “Olympics” of software for students is about a month away. That’s right, the finals of the
Imagine Cup 2009 starts July 3rd in Cairo, Egypt. This is a quick lowdown from the Director of Education here at Microsoft.

Coming at you LIIIIVE (ok not really) it’s this week’s Ping. This was a really exciting week in Microsoft-land with
MIX, IE8, and
Silverlight. We also talked about the “Surface 2” rumors and, of course, wrapped up with some
trivia.

This week , as always, Max and Laura observed and listened to what people here at Microsoft were buzzing about, what was on their minds and what they talked about at the water cooler. Here is a recap of what was on the minds of Microsofties this past
week. Topics include:

Microsoft is fully committed to software PLUS services... so for example, Outlook is the software and Exchange is the service. And you can get the "service" in the cloud via Outlook Web Access. Other companies believe services only in the cloud is the
way to go, but personally if I had just email in a browser and no cached local copy, I am not sure it would work out well for me.